Example 1: Your family is crazy. Therefore you are crazy. This is an example of the logical fallacy, hasty generalizations. There is a interpretation of misleading information present within this statement. The arguer draws to a conclusion of insufficient evidence that suggests a person being crazy because his or her family is crazy. This is a false settlement of opinion and judgment. A person can’t inherit a duplicate personality because each person is their own being, therefore this statement is a mistaken belief. The arguer drew a cessation far too quickly without considering the whole issue. Example 2: You should never gamble. Once you start gambling you find it hard to stop. Soon you are spending all your money on gambling, and eventually you will turn to crime to support your earnings.

This is an example of the logical fallacy, slippery slopes. Steps within the situation lead up to negative consequences as an ongoing process. This examples suggests that once you gamble, you’ll never be able to stop and you’ll be striving to rob a bank in the near future. However, that’s morally incorrect. Gambling does not interfere with one’s behavior and control. The negative control of a person will possibly lead to such actions, however, a person with a strong limitation can stop if they really wanted to. If everyone who gambles, robs a bank in approaching time, there will be lots more people booking themselves behind bars. Example 3: Everyday, I show up just as the school bell rings, therefore my arrival at school causes the school bell to ring.

This is an example of the logical fallacy, post hoc. It shows a demonstration of false arguments between casual links and relationships. It suggests that an event following another is caused by the first event that happened. For example, the arguer believes the school bell rings because of his or her arrival. This argument is invalid because there is no reasoning and proof...

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LOGICALFALLACIESLogicalfallacy: An argument that contains a mistake in reasoning.
2 major groups:
1. Fallacies of relevance
2. Fallacies of insufficient evidence
Fallacies of Relevance
Mistakes in reasoning that occur because the premises are logically irrelevant to the conclusions.
1. Personal Attack
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A fallacy is incorrect reasoning in argumentation resulting in a misconception. By accident or design, fallacies may exploit emotional triggers in the listener or interlocutor , or take advantage of social relationships between people. Fallacious arguments are often structured using rhetorical patterns that obscure the logical argument, making fallacies more difficult to diagnose. Also, the components of the fallacy may...

...Fallacies are all around us. Daily, when we watch TV, listen to the radio, or even read newspaper, we see or hear fallacies. But what is fallacy? According to Wikipedia “A fallacy is an argument that uses poor reasoning. An argument can be fallacious whether or not its conclusion is true”. Fallacies are part of everyday and become a basic in certain aspects of life.
According to the writing center of UNC, there are a lot...

...﻿Fallacies of Relevance
Fallacies of relevance are attempts to prove a conclusion by offering considerations that simply don’t bear on its truth. In order to prove that a conclusion is true, one must offer evidence that supports it. Arguments that commit fallacies of relevance don’t do this; the considerations that they offer in support of their conclusion are irrelevant to determining whether that conclusion is true. The considerations offered by...

...A Formal fallacy is an error in logic that can be seen in the argument's form without requiring an understanding of the argument's content. All formal fallacies are specific types of non sequiturs.
* Appeal to probability – takes something for granted because it would probably be the case, (or might possibly be the case).
* Argument from fallacy – assumes that if an argument for some conclusion is fallacious, then the conclusion itself is...

...FALLACY
* Is an error in argumentation
Formal Fallacies
* Committed against the form of the argument
Informal Fallacies
* Committed because of an unclear language or content or irrelevance of the premises
INFORMAL FALLACIESFallacies in Language / Ambiguity
A. Fallacy of Equivocation
- using a term in different meanings in the argumentation
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Explanation of LogicalFallacies
* What is logic?
* Logic is reasoning that is conducted according to strict principles.
* How is logic related to expository writing?
* When you write an expository essay, you are using logic to provide the layers of proof for your statements.
* You are proving your thesis when you construct your topic sentences.
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...LogicalFallacies
There are many different types of logicalfallacies, all of which render the authors argument invalided. The presence of a formal fallacy in an argument does not imply anything about the argument's premises or its conclusion. Even so, speakers and writers use faulty logic and irrational emotional appeals to persuade there readers everyday, newspapers and television are great examples of...